Anderson Ranch Arts Center 2015 Summer Workshop Catalog 1 | Page 18

Gail Kendall, Covered Dish Julia Galloway, Sugar Jar and Creamer Arthur Gonzalez, Broken Magic (detail) July 6 - 17 July 13 - 24 July 20 - 31 Pottery Pointers: Making Pottery: Sculpting Your Own Voice Gail Kendall Julia Galloway Arthur Gonzalez with guest artist Christian Rex van Minnen SKILL LEVEL: II - IV SKILL LEVEL: I - III SKILL LEVEL: Open to all CONCEPT: This handbuilding workshop challenges participants to conceptually stretch through an engaging series of additions and enhancements to basic pottery forms. Learn how stacking forms, adding feet, discovering how positive and negative space are created by adding handles and spouts add up to more interesting pots. Find out how dynamic tension becomes a riveting aspect of the pot that attracts the viewer and user. How does the potter connect surface decoration to the ideas embedded in the form? This workshop encourages the maker to search for new solutions to pottery elements, to set old habits aside and move forward by trying on new ideas. CONCEPT: The concept of this workshop is to learn from the history of ceramics, and bring these techniques and ideas into our own studio work. We recreate historical pottery to help us study new skills, and further our understanding of form and surface ornamentation. With the new understanding from recreating historical pottery, we bring this information back to our own work to help us develop new ideas. We study historical pottery closely through slide talks and discuss the culture where these pots developed. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students participate in wheel throwing, slab building, and coil building. We use low-, medium- and high-fire clay and will be firing at all three temperature ranges. CONCEPT: Concentrating on the life-size portrait bust as a format, we learn through facial and upper body expressions how to depict advanced emotions and, as a consequence, a way to a narrative. Foundations of portraiture are used as examples from the history of painting from the Renaissance to the present. Impressionistic color theory is used when we underglaze the completed sculpture. In addition, we make ceramic open books that “couple” with the bust, which complete a kind of “voice” that the figure will be imbued with and create a thinking form. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students use red sculpture clay, reduction kilns, underglazes, slips and glazes, plaster molds. We learn to control the clay in a natural manner. We also monoprint on clay. ACTIVITIES: Each day we start class with a demonstration followed by studio work time. We view a 40-minute historical slide talk each day. ACTIVITIES: Daily demonstrations occur every morning and afternoon, followed by individual assistance and discussion. FACULTY: Julia Galloway is a utilitarian potter and Professor at the University of Montana. Her pottery is influenced by historical pottery and inspired by narratives and her surroundings. She has exhibited and lectured across the United States and Canada. Her work is in the collections of the Long Beach Art Museum, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian. www.juliagalloway.com FACULTY: Arthur Gonzalez, a Professor at the California College of the Arts, is an internationally exhibiting artist with over fifty one-person shows. He has received many awards, including the Virginia Groot Foundation and four NEA Fellowships. www.arthurgonzalez.com Tuition: $975 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1375 Studio Fee: $155  Code: C0708  Enrollment Limit 14 Tuition: $975 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1375 Studio Fee: $155  Code: C0809  Enrollment Limit 12 eight exercises in form & surface new ideas from old ideas MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students use terracotta clay and low-fire glazes. handbuilding techniques, hard, soft slab, and coil construction, slips, stains and underglazes. ACTIVITIES: Two ‘Pottery Pointers’ are presented each day with brief image lectures based on a few exquisite Chinese pots. Short demos and long workdays are the goal. Discussion, discourse, sharing thoughts and ideas are important aspects of our workshop. FACULTY: Gail Kendall has been a resident at Spode Works in England, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and more. Gail is an emerita Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. www.gailkendall.com Tuition: $975 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1375 Studio Fee: $155  Code: C0607  Enrollment Limit 12 16  andersonranch.org  970/923-3181  [email protected] Christian Rex van Minnen exhibits in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and Europe. Christian has recently been an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch and an arts blogger at Huffington Post. www.christianvanminnen.com